Conservatives in the New Hampshire diocese led by the Episcopal Church USA's first openly homosexual bishop have left to form a breakaway parish.About 40 parishioners of the new Anglican Church of the Resurrection are using facilities of the Durham Evangelical Church. New Hampshire Bishop Vicki Gene Robinson, who has lived with his homosexual partner for years, was elected last year, but his consecration has led to a rift in the Episcopal Church USA and worldwide Anglicanism.
Richard Ellwood, a spokesman for the Church of the Resurrection, says for many lifelong Episcopalians the Robinson controversy was "the straw that broke their religious back."
"We migrated together, in many cases not knowing one another, with the same feeling that God was calling us to establish an alternative parish that would hold scripture as dear as God holds it -- and not water it down, like has happened so ...